House Administration chair warns hyperpolitical DAs: Weaponize the law, lose federal funding

Just the News ^ | March 21, 2023 | Charlotte Hazard

[Twotone]

Amid the Manhattan district attorney's reported planning to arrest former President Trump next week under a novel legal interpretation of a state law against falsifying business records, Chairman of the House Administration Committee Bryan Steil (R-Wisc.) issued a blunt warning Monday to hyperpolitical big city district attorneys: Any federal funding their offices receive may be at risk if they are abusing their prosecutorial power to settle politcal scores rather than fight violent crime.

"Often the federal government is funding and providing resources to prosecutors across the United States," Steil told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "The purpose of that is to make our cities safer. If we find out through this investigation that instead those are being used to weaponize DAs across the country with a purpose of grinding a political ax rather than making our communities safer, we're gonna have to go back into the funding model."

After former President Donald Trump announced last week that he expected to be indicted and arrested, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy directed relevant House committees to investigate whether federal funds were being used for "politically motivated prosecutions."

Steil said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's potential indictment of Trump would be only the latest in a long list of examples of political weaponization of the legal system by radical DAs in major Democrat-run cities.

"We continue to see DAs across the country engaged in political behavior," said Steil. "That sure looks like it's the case in this situation. What we want our DAs to do is actually go and work in the judicial system in an unpolitical way to actually hold criminals accountable and put guilty criminals behind bars."

[chrisser]

Tell me again why the feds are funding local DAs in the first place...

[Gene Eric]

Soros DAs

[eyeamok]

Make it the whole state and watch what happens

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Any federal funding their offices receive may be at risk if they are abusing their prosecutorial power to settle politcal scores rather than fight violent crime.

Why just their offices? That cannot amount to much. To get their attention, cut off ALL federal funding to the entire city.

[V V Camp Enari 67-68]

Money talks and you can bet that some ears have been bent by some major players. Especially Soros! He doesn’t, in my view, like attention.